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Extremism in Overdrive
Extremism in Overdrive As the director of the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo, the only reproductive health care provider still offering abortion care in the entire state of North Dakota, Tammi Kromenaker is used [...]
ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award
ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award On June 13, 2013, the Center for Reproductive Rights, in partnership with the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), presented the first annual ACS Reproductive Rights and [...]
Ireland’s Law a Modest Step Forward
Ireland’s Law a Modest Step Forward Technically, abortion has been legal in Ireland for two decades, but under extremely narrow circumstances. In practical terms, though, legal exceptions to a near total ban on abortion were [...]
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America: A Casebook
Launching Gender and Sexuality in Latin America The Center is thrilled to launch Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions, an English language translation of La Mirada de los Jueces: Género y Sexualidad [...]
El Salvador’s Disgrace
El Salvador’s Disgrace The Center’s president and CEO, Nancy Northup, reflects on the agonizing plight of an El Salvadoran woman known publicly as Beatriz, who for many weeks has faced the risk of death and [...]
Affordable Contraception on Trial
Affordable Contraception on Trial The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act included a mandate for employers to provide copay-free contraception to its workers, effectively putting birth control within the reach of millions more women—and [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama
An Open Letter to President Obama Dear President Obama: You made a promise to the women of the United States last year on the campaign trail—and just a few weeks ago, you said it again: [...]
No Relief in Ireland
No Relief in Ireland When Amanda Kellet and James Burke went to a Dublin hospital for their 21-week ultrasound, they were looking forward to finding out whether they were having a boy or a girl. [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
El Comité de Derechos Humanos critica a Perú por su ley de aborto altamente restrictiva
El Comité de Derechos Humanos critica a Perú por su ley de aborto altamente restrictiva El Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas recientemente criticó a Perú por una amplia gama de violaciones de [...]
Judge Condemns Latest Fed Delays on EC
Judge Condemns Latest Fed Delays on EC Just weeks after issuing a landmark decision in the Center’s epic battle to make emergency contraception available to all women without a prescription, Judge Edward Korman was back [...]
A Ban By Any Other Name
A Ban By Any Other Name by Nancy Northup, President & CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights Since the day the United States Supreme Court found in Roe v. Wade constitutional protections for women's right to [...]
Forced to Surrender
Forced to Surrender A New Orleans medical clinic had no choice but to close after a withering, years-long attack by the government designed to stop abortions. Maria Couevas is anything but a quitter. The facts [...]
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
